Stories & Opinions Worth Knowing but Maybe Not Quite Threadworthy 6/26

[Eupher]

Peter Schweizer: Hunter Biden Paid For A Private Global Cell Phone For Joe Biden While He Was Vice President

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/06/25/peter_schweizer_oversight_committee_must_subpoena_records_of_cell_phone_hunter_got_for_joe_biden.html

Peter Schweizer, head of the "Government Accountability Institute," told Maria Bartiromo on FNC's "Sunday Morning Futures" that he tipped off the House Oversight Committee to look into records for a private global cell phone he alleges Hunter Biden's business gave to Joe Biden during his time as vice president:

PETER SCHWEIZER: It's interesting, what is the line of communications between Hunter Biden and his business partners and Joe Biden when he's vice president of the United States? It's not the government phone, it's not Joe Biden's personal phone. We know from the laptop that Hunter Biden's business paid for a private phone line that Joe Biden used while he was vice president. It was from AT&T, it was $300 a month, it was a global phone where you could access somebody anywhere around the world.

We shared that phone number and that account information with people in the House Oversight Committee. My hope is that they if they haven't already, they will subpoena those records because I think it will give an indication on how tight the communication was.

And that may be the phone, for example, that the Ukrainian, the Burisma executive might have used in this allegation that the he talked to Joe Biden in recorded conversations.

I would just say one other thing, Maria, as it relates to that sort of shakedown phone call with Henry Zhao that we alluded to, Henry Zhao in 2015 had already sent $5 million to the Bidens. He was the head of a Harvest Investment firm. And what's interesting is in the correspondence there, Hunter Biden again talks to Zhao in the context of "this is a deal that's important to my family" involving his father.

Let's also keep in mind, we fixate on the criminal element of this, we also have to focus on the espionage element of this. Henry Zhao paid $5 million to Hunter Biden from an account that was part of a company that he co-owned with the family of the Minister of State Security of China, who's in charge of the entire spy apparatus. And you see that in every deal that Hunter Biden did in China. These individuals that are sending him money have ties to Chinese intelligence.

OK, anybody surprised by this, please raise your hand. Nobody. OK, that settles that.

OF COURSE, Joe had a burner phone. And since The First Crackhead Scumbag Son loves to piss and moan about what he paid for (hey, dude -- you're little more than SharterJoe's bag man), there is no doubt about this. Kinda wonderin' what the Oversight Committee is doing with this information other than spread out the "bombshell" stories to keep them in front of the cameras.

[SVPete]

IIRC from a previous employer, they banned bringing cell phones that had a camera into an enclosed area where Secret (= lowest level) documents were in use (specs, drawings, test print-outs, etc.). Removing a Secret document from the enclosed (locked, entry code needed) area, even accidentally could lead to being canned and prosecuted. People allowed to enter the enclosed area had to go through screening to get a clearance.

I didn't have a clearance and worked on non-classified products (microwave power modules).

[SVPete]

Appeals court rules BLM can be sued for police injuries

https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2023/06/25/appeals-court-rules-blm-can-be-sued-for-police-injuries-n560492

There’s a case making its way through the courts in Louisiana that could potentially have significant implications in a country where protests have grown more numerous and often turn into violent riots. Back in 2016, long before the Summer of Love, Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson was already stirring up trouble. Following the police shooting of Alton Sterling, a Black man, Mckesson organized a protest that quickly swelled out of control. A police officer was injured during the scrum and a lawsuit was subsequently launched against Mckesson seeking damages. That case has been bouncing back and forth in the courts for years, but now a panel for the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled to allow the lawsuit to proceed. At Reuters, columnist Hassan Kanu finds this turn of events to be disturbing because of potential implications for free speech and the right to peacefully demonstrate.

This ruling simply allows the case to be tried, it does not decide the case. As for the, "implications for free speech and the right to peacefully demonstrate," how bleeping hard is it to not burn and loot, not publicly advocate for violence, but instead call for voicing one's POV peacefully ... the way Trump did on 1/6/2021?

[SVPete]

War on Women: Transes Ban Lesbians From Pride March, Cite 'Transphobia'

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/benbartee/2023/06/25/war-on-women-transes-ban-lesbians-from-pride-march-cite-transphobia-n1706188

The most obvious, but by no means the only, faultline within the coalition is the transgenders vs conventional feminists (derisively referred to by the transes as “TERFS,” an acronym for “trans-exclusionary radical feminists.”)

Via Reduxx:

A female-only lesbian advocacy group in France was excluded from their local Pride parade on the basis that they did not allow the membership of trans-identified males. Femmes Entre Elles was labeled “transphobic” for restricting its advocacy to issues faced by women.

Femmes Entre Elles, which translates to “Women Among Themselves,” is a single-sex association for lesbian and bisexual women that has operated for over 30 years. It has been involved in campaigns to support women’s sex-based rights and the rights of lesbian women.

But on May 27, the group was informed via email that they were not welcome to participate in the annual Pride march in Rennes, which was held on June 17. Leading local LGBT center Iskis explained that the decision was made because Femmes Entre Elles did not welcome the membership of men who claim to be women.

This happened in France, but the fractures between trans pressure groups, lesbian pressure groups, and feminist pressure groups are not small and are across multiple nations.

[SVPete]

University of Wyoming sorority reveals it CHANGED its definition of 'woman' to allow 6ft2, 260lb trans member to join - and slams sisters who sued because she 'stared at them with an erection visible through leggings'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12218911/University-Wyoming-sorority-slams-sisters-suing-6ft2-260lb-trans-member.html

A University of Wyoming sorority has slammed its female members for complaining after it allowed a 6ft2, 260lb trans woman to live in the house - insisting the term 'woman' is 'unquestionably open to many interpretations'.

Sisters at the campus' Kappa Kappa Gamma (KKG) chapter claim the organization changed the definition of a woman to allow trans member Artemis Langford to join in September 2022.

After the sorority's leadership allegedly bullied and intimidated the girls to accept Langford, she was then quickly met with accusations she would 'peep at (the other girls) while visibly aroused'.

Members said they were left 'in constant fear in our home', and the lawsuit alleges that she was frequently caught with 'an erection visible through (her) leggings'.

I wonder how often this and worse has happened, and the women objects of faux-trannie lust lacked the courage/support to speak out.

[Old n Grumpy]

Appeals court rules BLM can be sued for police injuries

You can sue them and win but getting any money out of them would be impossible.
However maybe if they knew they would be held accountable for their actions they might think twice about injuring cops.

Actually that’s a stupid statement I don’t think they could think once let alone twice 

[Old n Grumpy]

The whole idea of treating men as women is preposterous and ridiculous and really needs to be addressed.